VICTORIA STATE ROSE GARDEN WERRIBEE PARK 10AM - 4PM

EVENT

PROGRAMNOVEMBER 11-12 2017

FREE WYNDHAM CITY EVENT

WHAT’S ON...ALL GREEN NURSERY DEMONSTRATION STAGE

Victoria State Rose Garden Tours:Come and enjoy a guided tour of the Victoria State Rose Garden hosted by one of the

Victoria State Rose Garden supporters who know the garden best!

Tour times: 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm

Please be sure to arrive at the Victoria State Rose Garden Supporters marquee 15mins before each tour - Site 6

SATURDAY 11 NOVEMBER

10.30am Welcome to Country by Wangal United

10.50am Official Event Opening Remembrance Day Observance

11.05am Victoria State Rose Garden Supporters

12.00pm The Gardenettes Summer gardening projects

1.00pm Vasili How to build a no dig garden Different ways to compost

2.00pm Attila Kapitany Succulents and bottle trees

3.00pm Jane Edmanson and Clive Larkman Food and flora

3.30pm Diana Sargeant and Jane Edmanson Talking roses

SUNDAY 12 NOVEMBER

11.00am Victoria State Rose Garden Volunteers

12.00pm Jane Edmanson Phantasmagorical plants Get a little dirt on your hands

1.00pm Vasili Growing fruit trees in small spaces Creating edible gardens

2.00pm Melissa King Spring gardening projects

3.00pm Attila Kapitany Succulents, roses and bulbs

EXHIBITORS:

3 Wyndham City Information 4 YPA Wyndham City Live Heroic Rose Painting (Saturday

Only) 5 All Green Nursery & Garden

Supplies 6 Victoria State Rose Garden

Supporters 7 Silkies Rose Farm – rosesalesonline 8 Aussie Gutter Protection 9 Gardening 4 Kids10 Parks Victoria11 Secret Rose Garden12 Gift Givers Gallery13 Di’s Delightful Plants14 Whirly15 Werribee Visitor Information

Centre16 Newstead Rose Nursery17 Brazilian Fashion Hub18 Grow Heirloom19 Werribee Men’s Shed20 The Greenpower Company21 Succulents and Bottle Trees22 Werribee Park Heritage Orchard23 Mansfield Tools24 Triffid Park25 Beatrice Flora26 PartyLite27 Fair Dinkum Fertilizers28 Callas and Hippeastrum29 Green Living in Wyndham 30 Taltarni

FOOD TRUCKS:Billy Van CreamyLittle Box BrownieSalt and PepaSeñor Churro Von CrumbHoney Dee (Saturday Only) Umbrellas Seating (Hay bales / picnic tables)

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The rose has figured strongly in the history of Werribee Park and it is fitting that Australia’s first State Rose Garden should find a home there. When the brothers Thomas and Andrew Chirnside developed the original mansion gardens, they planted a rose garden around the parterre.

The development of the Victoria State Rose Garden followed an approach by Jim Priestly, the Honorary Secretary of the National Rose Society of Australia in 1976, to the then Premier of Victoria. An investigation into the establishment of a State Rose Garden was authorised as a special project of the ‘Garden State’ concept.

By 1979, the Public Works Department had viewed a number of proposed sites in Victoria and recommended that the State Rose Garden be constructed at Werribee Park, on land already owned by the State. In 1980, a working party was set up to determine budget requirements for the development of the Garden and a design team was nominated. The original concept was that of Jim Priestly.

Construction commenced in 1982. Thegarden was designed by Mervyn Hayman-Danker, architect and urban designer. The Victoria State Rose Garden was opened tothe public in November 1986.

In 1997, the Heritage Rose Border wascommenced along the eastern fence of the Garden. In 2000 the Border was extended, bringing the number of ‘old rose’ varieties featured to approximately 250.

NEW VOLUNTEERS ARE WELCOMEContact: info@vicstaterosegarden.com.au

HISTORY OF THE VICTORIA STATE ROSE GARDEN

To celebrate the Federation of Australian States in the year 2000, a Leaf of Australian bred roses was commenced. The next project was a collection of English roses bred by David Austin from the UK. This enclosed garden was built in the shape of a rose ‘bud’.

In 2003, the VSRG was awarded theInternational Garden of Excellence by theWorld Federation of Rose Societies. Thiswas the first rose garden outside Europeto receive this award and the only one atthat time, cared for by volunteers.

The Victoria State Rose Garden Supporters (VSRGS) Inc. evolved from a plea to the public for assistance in the care of the roses. In the early 1990’s without finance to maintain the garden, the area was going to revert to pasture. Now 20 years after the first group of volunteers arrived, there is a strong and committed group responsible for the ordering, planting, staking and tying, deadheading and winter pruning of the plants. Since 1993, the supporters have also initiated special projects, including the production of leaflets, booklets and floral displays to promote the Garden and to inform and welcome new visitors.

In 2012 the supporters planned andorganised the erection of a new formalentry arch to define the garden entrance.This impressive structure has improvedaccess to the garden and provided a focalpoint for visitors to the garden.

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Fruit and vegetable scraps want in on the compost party.

Welcome these newcomers into your Green Waste Bin!

The Gardenettes – 12.00pm SaturdayMelbourne based, but broadcasting to the world thanks to the wonders of the net! The Gardenettes is a new concept in lifestyle viewing – completely online, the show is short, sharp and on-trend. Melissa King and Chloe Thomson have both been around the gardening block a few times, having appeared on some of Australia’s biggest gardening and lifestyle shows. Retro-tinged, yet with a modern edge, The Gardenettes is full of nan-approved gardening advice and simple recipes that can be whipped up in a jiffy!

Vasili – 1.00pm Saturday and Sunday Vasili is an expert horticulturalist who loves gardening and eating fresh produce. Inspired by the everyday gardeners he visits, he continues to share his knowledge of gardening the natural way through his TV show Vasili’s Garden on Channel 7Two and radio spots on 3AW.

Attila Kapitany – 2.00pm Saturday and 3.00pm SundayAttila is well known for his passion for cacti and succulents! He is the immediate past president of the Cactus & Succulent Society of Australia with 10 years in this position. He has over thirty five years experience growing and enthusiastically marketing cacti and succulents. Attila has co-written seven books with Rudolf Schulz about succulents, with an eighth book a solo effort on Australian native species. His newest publications are a series of eight booklets on xerophytic Australian plants.

Jane Edmanson OAM – 3:00pm Saturday and 12.00pm Sunday Jane has been a Victorian presenter with Gardening Australia, ABC Television’s national gardening program since its inception over 28 years ago. Jane loves gardening and the Australian bush and is Patron of the Royal Horticultural Society Victoria, Melton Botanic Gardens and The Gardens of Austin Health. Jane has written a number of books and leads garden tours with lovely people each year in Australia and overseas.

Clive Larkman – 3.00pm SaturdayClive Larkman has been working in the nursery industry since 1989, building his family’s nursery into a major propagation nursery and producer of edible plants for the sector. Clive writes for a number of trade journals and is a regular on 3AW, as well as running his own food festival, the Herb and Chilli Festival.

Diana Sargeant – 3:30pm SaturdayDiana Sargeant has been a consulting rosarian for more than 28 years in her own Silkies Rose Farm Nursery. She has designed many private and public rose gardens, presents regularly on radio talk-back gardening programs, has enjoyed stints on television and she loves to inspire her customers to grow the most enchanting and easy-care rose gardens.

Melissa King – 2.00pm SundayMelissa has worked alongside Peter Cundall on ABC’s Gardening Australia, combined her love of gardens, food and travel as one of the hosts of the travel series Gurus Explore, transformed front yards in Channel 9’s make-over series Battlefronts, hosted the gardening segment on Channel 10’s The Circle and inspired people of all ages to get out into the garden on Foxtel’s Garden Angels. These days Melissa stars in The Garden Gurus on Channel 9 and is proud to call herself a ‘Gardenette’.

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Q. What types of roses do you have in the garden?

a. Garden roses are grouped in two ways: according to their habits of growth eg. shrub roses, climbers, standards, ramblers, ground covers, and to their ancestry e.g. teas, hybrids, heritage roses. These groups which often overlap, are represented throughout the garden. The number of plants in the garden is approximately 5500.

Q. How are the roses pruned?a. From June to September, the volunteers prune the roses lightly with the aim of producing maximum bloom. Hybrid Teas and Floribundas have unhealthy, aged and spindly growth removed entirely, then the remainder is pruned to about pencil thickness. Once-flowering roses are pruned after they finish blooming in late summer.

Q. How do you control weeds?a. Our volunteers do a lot of weeding especially around the base of rose bushes and mulch helps to control weeds. We use some herbicides for pre emergent and broad leafed weeds but mostly Parks oversee the spraying program.

Q. How do you control diseases?a. Parks spray plants after pruning with white oil to treat scale. after a couple of weeks a fungicide is used to control powdery mildew and black spot. Spraying continues throughout summer as required.

Q. Which rose has the best fragrance?

a. Fragrance is in the ‘nose’ of the beholder, with weather and time of day having an influence on its intensity. Heritage roses and David austin roses are especially fragrant. The foliage also has a scent in some cases - the moss roses in the Heritage border are noted for this.

Q. Who maintains the Rose Garden?

a. the Victoria State rose Garden Supporters (VSrGS), a dedicated group of volunteers, are responsible for pruning and dead-heading, mulching etc. We carry out a multitude of other tasks to keep the roses looking at their best and work on projects to extend and improve the rose Garden in co-operation with Park staff. The new entrance arch was opened in 2012. The Supporters were responsible for this innovation which improves access to the garden. The Garden is the responsibility of Parks Victoria Werribee Park. Parks staff arrange for lawn mowing, care of the pathways, edging of the beds, garden watering and disease prevention.

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